Handheld speed cameras

DCFC79

Anyone able to tell me if the handheld speed cameras have a speed tolerance, is doing a 35mph on a road with a limit of 30mph allowed.

Mercdriver

That's the start of enforcement on APCO guidelines but remember that your speedometer will over read slightly...

DCFC79

Mercdriver wrote: »

That's the start of enforcement on APCO guidelines but remember that your speedometer will over read slightly...

That was my next question, thanks. Im confident I was doing 35, yes I know I should'nt or slowed down a little.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

Hand held speed cameras are extremely accurate. As above, a real 35mph will get you at least a speed awareness course.

Remember that the time that they ping you is likely to be well before you have spotted them, if you spot them, lift off and then look at your speedo you most likely will have been going faster when they clocked you.

Sorry!!

DCFC79

IanMSpencer wrote: »

Hand held speed cameras are extremely accurate. As above, a real 35mph will get you at least a speed awareness course.

Remember that the time that they ping you is likely to be well before you have spotted them, if you spot them, lift off and then look at your speedo you most likely will have been going faster when they clocked you.

Sorry!!

Thanks

Maybe it wasn't a speed gun and he was just checking the speeds, Do the police even do that ?

Marktheshark

If it was not a van, they would normally stop the car and issue the driver a Ticket.
As said they have you hundreds of yards away, by the time you see them, they are either in the road ready to stop you or doing the next one.

If its a van set up, they issue by post.

DCFC79

Marktheshark wrote: »

If it was not a van, they would normally stop the car and issue the driver a Ticket.
As said they have you hundreds of yards away, by the time you see them, they are either in the road ready to stop you or doing the next one.

If its a van set up, they issue by post.

No van or car was in sight (well it wasn't in view of those driving on along the road), he was stood on the corner of a junction.

Time will tell in 2 weeks.

mchale

google: "hand held gun sweep error"

Car_54

AFAIK there are no hand-held speed cameras, simply speed-meters.

DCFC79

Car_54 wrote: »

AFAIK there are no hand-held speed cameras, simply speed-meters.

Yes, I cant confirm it was a speed camera, it could have been a speed meter.

Tobster86

Individual officers aren't bound by the ACPO tolerance guidelines.

To be honest, if someone drove past them 1mph below the recommended tolerance, pulling a troll face expression, I'd expect them to be pulled over.

Driving at or below the speed limit under this circumstance demonstrates good observation and passes the attitude test.